BART Greenlights Two-Tower TOD in Downtown Oakland

The Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Board of Directors approved developers’ plans for a transit-oriented development (TOD) that includes 28- and 19-story towers at the new Lake Merritt BART station in downtown Oakland, California, with construction slated to start in 2024, SF YIMBY reports. San Francisco-based Strada Investment Group and Oakland-based East Bay Asian Local Development Corp. are behind the plan, which involves replacing two low-rise structures with a 28-story, 360-unit residential tower during phase 1 and a 19-story office tower and a seven-story affordable housing structure during phase 2. Also on the drawing board are a 97-unit senior affordable housing complex, improved public space around the new BART station, retail, parking for cars and bicycles and a daycare facility. PYATOK is project architect, Solomon Cordwell Buenz designed the towers, BKF Engineers is handling civil engineering and Einwiller Kuehl is landscape architect.